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Where How Does Smart Growth Differ with Location?
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7 1 Introduction Charles Howard, Washington State Department of Transportation Our first speaker is going to be LuannHamilton. Luann is the Director of theTransportation Planning Division of the Chicago Department of Transportation, and she is going to be dealing with the urban infill example.
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7 2 Smart Transportation in Chicago Luann Hamilton, Chicago Department of Transportation Iwanted to start by giving you some background onChicago. There are more than 8 million people inour six-county metropolitan area as of 2000, and about 2.9 million live in the city itself.
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1990s. And some of the newer central area developments feature blank walls along the street that discourage pedestrian activity and deaden the environment.
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a number of intersections are at Level of Service E, which means traffic is pretty congested. I'm not a traffic engineer, so I'm not going to use more technical terms for it, but it is already pretty congested.
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growth. Getting to 70 percent transit mode share will mean 115,000 to 167,000 additional transit trips daily, and we will need to expand our capacity going from the suburban areas into the city in order to achieve that goal, or make that goal possible.
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intercity rail or regional rail. It could be used by highspeed rail if the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative ever takes off.
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7 7 Smart Transportation in the Puget Sound Region Michael Cummings, Washington State Department of Transportation I'm here to talk about how there are good reasonswhy Seattle is not Chicago. Figure 1 is symbolic ofwhat is happening.
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mixed use and multimodal development activities, establish level of service standards for local arterials and transit systems, and define specific actions to bring transportation facilities into compliance with established standards. Figure 2 shows the Puget Sound region.
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effort to meet with people. We met with the public in residential basements and in business boardrooms.
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We are also looking at managed lanes. This potentially means taking the existing HOV lane and the lane adjacent to it and separating them from the generalpurpose lanes.
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8 1 Smart Transportation in Marana, Arizona Jim DeGrood, Town of Marana, Arizona It is a little intimidating coming from an edge city totalk about smart growth. The town of Marana islocated in Pima County, a suburb of the city of Tucson.
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ton-farming families find that they are being driven from business. We may be looking at little continuation in that as a result of the recent farm bill, but we still think that as a lifestyle, farming will diminish over time.
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We engaged a blue ribbon panel of interested parties in our transportation planning effort. We brought in our chamber of commerce and our building community and our neighborhood associations as well as our citizen activists and basically posed to them the question, How are we going to pay for this?
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8 4 Discussion Audience question: A question for any or all of the panelists. As we think about what constitutes smart growth, have you, in your efforts, had a discussion locally or regionally about what makes it smart and how smart it is?
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the downtown offers choice. I assume that some people may choose that.
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to the streets, but it is not a fully on-structure facility. Several are new below-grade corridors, and those would be more costly.
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part of the approval process. These are kinds of things we need to do to ensure there is appropriate housing proximate to the generators.
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